Neckarwiese
Riverside floodplain lawn with poplars, playgrounds and wide views across the river to the old town.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Neckarwiese in Heidelberg is about the ground itself: a long, narrow riverside lawn on the Neuenheim bank that sits barely above the Neckar. It reaches back to the nineteen-twenties waterway works that reshaped a ragged fishing-village shore, and to the locals who objected. Then it follows the flood of June twenty twenty-four onto the grass. Best heard sitting on the lawn, facing the water.
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